KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage throughout Ukraine on Monday that appeared to target energy infrastructure. At least three people were reported killed.
The barrage began around midnight and continued beyond daybreak in what appeared to be Russia’s biggest attack against Ukraine in weeks.
According to Ukraine’s air force, there were multiple groups of Russian drones moving toward eastern, northern, southern, and central regions of Ukraine, followed by multiple cruise and ballistic missiles.
Explosions were heard in the capital, Kyiv. Power and water supplies in the city have been disrupted by the attack, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
In the wake of the barrage, the city administration announced plans to open “points of invincibility” — shelter-type places where people can charge their devices and get refreshments during energy blackouts. Such points were first opened in Ukraine in the fall of 2022, when Russia targeted the country’s energy infrastructure with weekly barrages.
Ihor Polishchuk, mayor of Ukraine’s western city of Lutsk, said a multistory residential building and an unspecified infrastructure object were hit and one person was killed.
Another person was killed in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, where the attack sparked multiple fires, damaged a dozen
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